Meaning of diatopically | Babel Free

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Occurring over or changing with space; geographically.

Examples

“First, a large-scale corpus of material is needed, both diachronically and diatopically arrayed and allowing in its organization and compilation for the identification of correlations with phenomena traditionally treated as extralinguistic, e.g. genre, script, etc.”

“. Concerning the spirantization of /b/, /d/ and /g/, it should be noted that it shows a much more restricted diffusion throughout the region diatopically.”

“If we know⟳ that nature is deeply culturalized and culture deeply naturalized (as Morin has maintained since the 1950s and the ontological turn⟳ in anthropology has been discussing since the 1990s), building our semiotic theory of the face⟳ on the basis of the common sense⟳ dichotomy between nature and culture would prevent⟳ us from truly comprehending the axiologies and ideologies of the face⟳ spread⟳ diachronically and diatopically.”

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